A Lebanon man convicted earlier this month in a murder case from last year will not be retried.
At a sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Taylor County Circuit Judge Todd Spalding denied a motion to retry William Calhoun, 25, after he was convicted in a jury trial earlier this month.

Calhoun was sentenced to 20 years for wanton murder, 10 years for first-degree assault and one year each for two of the three wanton endangerment charges, all to run concurrently.

A tract at the local Heartland Commerce and Technology Park recently received the state’s Build-Ready certification.

The Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development announced last week that a 10-acre tract at the park earned the certification, and is the 13th location to receive it. The tract is expandable to 173 acres and includes a 108,000-square-foot building pad.

Ron McMahan of the Campbellsville/Taylor County Economic Development Authority said there’s considerable interest in the park as a whole.

The Campbellsville Police Department has arrested Cimorone Porter, also known as “P.”

With assistance from the Elizabethtown Police Department, CPD was able to arrest Porter, who was wanted in connection to a shooting incident that occurred on Lowell Avenue on May 28, according to a CPD report.

Porter was arrested on Thursday and lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center on a Taylor County warrant. He is charged with first-degree assault. As of press time, Porter is still being held in the Hardin County Detention Center on a $50,000 bond.

Paul Campion, Randy Johnson, their daughter Mackenzie Johnson-Campion and Johnson’s sister Violet Johnson were at Dog-Eared Books Saturday at a book signing for their book “Higher Love: The Miraculous Story of a Family.”

Dog-Eared Books owner T.J. Rayhill said he, local group Love Wins United – which is organized by Ashley Bell – and others invited Campion and Johnson to be there Saturday.

At roughly $11 million, the county’s 2017/2018 budget will be about $1 million more than the current budget.

At a special-called meeting on Tuesday evening, magistrates on the Taylor County Fiscal Court unanimously approved the new budget. Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers said the budget will be “almost identical” to the current budget.

“We’re up a little bit, and the jail’s up a little bit, (but) the general fund is about the same,” said Rogers.